Re: [school-core] RE: cooperation

[mike eschman <meschman@etc-edu.com>]

hello,

we broadcast audio books at http://www.etc-edu.com,
along with jazz and classical music.  i would love to
replace the copyrighted mono degraded bandwidth music
i use now with public domain.

then i could remove the advertising from the site.

is that feasible ?

the whole copyright war has me to the point where in march, the music gets 
pulled anyway.  but it adds a lot.

mike eschman, etc ...
"Not just an afterthought ...




On Monday 24 February 2003 09:47 pm, David Bucknell wrote:
. Hi, thanks for the up-date <grin>.
.
. Quoting Sean Fredrick Keane <laugh@sean.keane.name>:
.
. > Hi!
. >
. > Yes, we did.
. >
. > Sorry... I am a STUDENT teacher... so not only do I have kindergarten,
. > but I also have a full load of university classes... so I've been real
. > sidetracked. :) thanks for the follow up message!!
. >
. > After I got your message that you couldn't find my post I realized that
. > I had actually ended up posting to some other message group from a link
. > off the sourceforge site. Whoops!
.
. Well, I've read the rest of your message and I hope your group _will_ join
. schoolforge -- do you have a site? If you do, and are willing to put a logo
. (choose one from http://schoolforge.net/logos or make your own) on it
 (linked to . http://schoolforge.net) and participate in schoolforge-discuss
 (or have other . members do that!) then you're ready: go to
 http://schoolforge.net/sfdiscuss.php . to join the mailing list and
 http://seuldat.seul.org/cgi-bin/mementer0.pl to . fill out the membership
 info. form.
.
.
. > I also considered what you had said about membership and it does make
. > more sense now.  I just thought it was a slightly cumbersome hurdle to
. > participation.
.
. Anyone can join schoolforge-discuss and participate. I hope your colleagues
 will . do this. We have some really great people using open source tools to
 stream . broadcast and make cd's of free books and music. You all will fit
 right in. .
. > As for Kempleton.com - the gist of it is that we are creating music that
. > may be suitable for royalty free use in education related projects -
. > open source music we like to think.  All music will be released under
. > the new CreativeCommons.org Attribuition-NonCommerical-ShareAlike
. > license - essentially public domain.
. >
. > At this point there really needs to be a filter to designate music that
. > is appropriate for young audiences (as there are a couple for mature
. > audiences only), but you should know that there are a variety of
. > perfectly appropriate instrumental albums from different artists in
. > classical, acoustic guitar and ambient electronic genres.
. >
. > We are not quite sure how best to share this project with the public.
. > We know that we would like people to feel free to use it, especially if
. > they are in need of something to suit a particular license and are
. > looking to avoid fees... we also thought that developers might feel at
. > home listening to music that is ideologically compatible with their
. > efforts - generous creative work without strings attached.  We are
. > slowly making announcements in various nooks of the open source
. > community.  Because I am now working in the educational domain I thought
. > it would be appropriate to share with people like yourself initially.
. >
. > On a side note, I am formerly a web developer - I worked primarily
. > scripting in Macromedia Flash.  I am always curious as to how I could
. > integrate some of my skills into the primary school classroom.  Are
. > there any projects on opensourceschools.org that are coded in flash?  Do
. > you know of other resources that might be helpful for technology
. > integration in primary education?  Thanks.
.
. There is lots of talk on the list about the flash format which is open and
 the . fact that an open tool to manipulate that format is still needed.
.
. > sean
. >
. > Sean Fredrick Keane
. > laugh@sean.keane.name
. > http://sean.keane.name
.
. Best wishes,
.
. David
. >
. > -----Original Message-----
. > From: David Bucknell [mailto:david@members.iteachnet.org]
. > Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 10:03 PM
. > To: Sean
. > Subject: Re: cooperation
. >
. > Dear Sean,
. >
. > I _think_ we exchanged messages re your thoughts below. Or did we?
. > <grin> Pretty busy here, as I'm sure you are as a kindergarten teacher.
. > Let me know how we can work together.
. >
. > David Bucknell
. > OpenSourceSchools.org and Schoolforge Membership
. >
. > ==
. > On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 02:52:59AM -0500, Sean wrote:
. > > Hi,
. > >
. > > I am a student teacher at a kindergarden in New York.  I have switched
. >
. > > careers, having been trained in visual design and programming
. > > previously.  The school I work at is about average with technology
. > > integration, so there is much room for improvement. I am eager to
. > apply
. > > my previous experience to this new environment.  I am thankful for
. > your
. > > efforts to bring innovations to our schools.
. > >
. > > I have a few comments I would like to share.
. > >
. > > First, i would love to use the chat, but IRC isn't something that will
. >
. > > be installed in our school machines and is not something i currently
. > > have at home. while i am  familiar with various clients, I am largely
. > > uninterested in the hassles it introduces to an otherwise simple task.
. >
. > > perhaps you aren't aware, but there are java and Flash clients that
. > can
. > > rest in a web page and access an IRC server and channel seamlessly.
. > > perhaps that would be something worthwhile to investigate?
. > >
. > > I am a little baffled by the prohibition of individual membership.
. > your
. > > mission statement conflicts with the suggestion that individuals are a
. >
. > > valued resource.  i really have no official association. i am really
. > > just a lone force. how does this restriction fit into the plan?
. > >
. > > while i look forward to contributing a variety of works, i do have one
. >
. > > to share right now. i posted a note about it in the message board:
. > >
. > > Open Music for copyright free usage Our collective, Kempleton
. > > (http://www.kempleton.com ), is working to produce and distribute
. > music
. > > created with the open source ideology in mind. Currently at 20 albums
. > > by 11 different artists, a range of genres are represented and free to
. >
. > > incorporate into your projects royalty free.  While in its infacy, the
. >
. > > collective will begin to establish a section with K-12 usage in mind -
. >
. > > in the meantime, please excuse content that may be inappropriate for
. > > your audience. Perhaps you may now work on open software while
. > > listening to music with a clearer conscience knowing that  you are
. > > surrounded by like-minded creative support.
. > >
. > > thanks again,
. > > Sean Keane
. > >
. > >
. > >
. > >
. > >
. >
. >
. >
.
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